One couple’s journey through parenthood
For S2’s 6m photo-shoot I asked Kelly to capture a few moments of me with S2 that mean a lot to me: bath-time and dinner-time. Those are mostly 1:1 time for the two of us, and it’s something I really want to remember. She did a great job.
AND she also took an amazing photo of all of us together (including the blur that was G 3 months ago). Thank you, Kelly!
S2 LOOOOVES him a tasty toe snack before bed-time. As soon as his cloth diaper comes off, and those feet are in range, he’s all for it.
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Of course, not to be out-done, when G heard about his younger brother’s flexible skills, he decided to show us he could (still) do it too. Observe the happy squeals coming from the young dude on my left. I think S2 was egging his older brother on.
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See all the glorious moments I get to document while sitting in between the boys while in the car?
G: Daddy, daddy what do you want?
S: World peace. But I’l start with house-hold peace.
G: We don’t have peas daddy. We have water!
In G’s preschool room there’s a large bulletin boards with all the kids and their favorite sayings. You have kids that rave about their favorite colors, or being proud of their brothers. G’s favorite saying? “No!” That’s my kid alright!
(while playing our “Name an animal” game)
S: Gazelle
G: No. That’s no how you say it.
S: How do you say it then?
G: GaZELLE
Apparently, you need to scream out the second half of Giselle. We all had it wrong. Including Merriam-Webster.
“Can you hear me now?” G and S talking. To each other.
S2 on the other hand got to chill with his buddy D. D not having been around dudes his size was very intrigued. He wanted to spoon,
check out the competition,
and pull on some ears.
S2, on the other hand, got tired of the last part of that inspection pretty fast.
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Tonight was daycare’s annual Spring Sing fundraiser. It’s a benefit with auctions, dinner and child-provided entertainment. Proceeds go towards the program. Child participation is optional, and really driven by their attendance at the event (ie. if you don’t come, your child won’t perform). The event is 6-8 (or 9 if, like me, you chatted up other parents), so a bit late for little people, but since G decided a while back that he won’t go to bed before 9:30, it was a welcome idea to go. And so we did. Which meant, you guessed it: G got to perform.
I was envisioning G being the child on the stage that would run, like a maniac, back and forth. When asked to participate would give his little mischievous grin and say “Nooooooo!” I was expecting this. As was S. Instead, we got a child that stood in his spot (up front) of the stage, waved his hands, (occasionally) sang in tune, and performed. In front of about 130 adults.
Color me surprised.
I don’t expect that this lack-of stage fright will last to next year, but hey, who knows? Meanwhile, enjoy the pre-school performance of “Coconut Soap”. G is the peanut in the orange T, just a little to the right of center. (And, yes, if you don’t have any children within this age group, this will be torturous to experience).
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I only packed the Flip for this. I’m sure had I brought the dSLR that G would’ve behaved exactly as I expected… because I would be waiting with high-quality equipment. Instead, you get pixelated video 🙂 Oh, and pardon the shakiness in the middle. I had some kids in the audience that decided this would be a great time to need to get past me.
How we spent our Easter Sunday.
G played hide and seek with me
… and his baby:
He gave it hugs
and milk
“I no spill it, Mama. I no spill it!”
He changed it’s diaper
and poked it’s belly-button
Meanwhile, S2 made faces at Daddy
And I got to stay in my pajamas all day. It doesn’t get much better than this!
This morning I woke up to the soft snoring sounds of this duo:
The only thing that would be missing to describe an average morning for us these days is the other half of the bed. Where I would be sleeping, half-reclined, with S2 snuggled under my arm.
G’s been coming in, in the early mornings, carrying his friends, and last week, even a pillow (as if we didn’t have enough). It’s not that restful of sleep for us (especially S) since he still thrashes around a lot and does things like … sleep sideways. S has to constantly wrestle him back on the bed so he doesn’t fall off. Observe his well stretched arm cupping G’s butt — it’s his sleep state of protection.
I’m shocked that with all the photos I took this morning and my flash going off they didn’t wake up. But they’re sure cute though, no? Even with all the crusty nose boogies 🙂